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Anjna Swaminathan

A violinist, singer, composer, and theatre artist, Anjna Swaminathan was trained principally in the Indian Carnatic tradition, but she is fluent in myriad musical tongues. In “WOVEN—Entangled Memorabilia,” Swaminathan mingles poetry and politics with personal experience to explore issues of identity, loss, and mourning. The work, scored for a string septet with narration, draws inspiration from Indian Malayali art and from Tamil poetry from the turn of the twentieth century.